Building xmlroff on Ubuntu 7.10 is straightforward once you install some build tools and the required ‘-dev’ packages.
Starting with a clean installed system, install the following packages (and their dependencies):
- libtool
- autoconf
- automake1.9
- libglib2.0-dev
- libxslt1-dev
- libcairo2-dev and/or libgnomeprint2.2-dev
- libpango1.0-dev
- libgtk2.0-dev (not libgdk-pixbuf-dev)